The burden of cancer in New Zealand: a comparison of incidence and DALY metrics and its relevance for ethnic disparities.

Conclusions: Due to Māori both having higher rates of cancers with a worse survival (e.g. lung cancer), and tending to have worse survival for each cancer site, ethnic disparities in the age-standardised DALY burden were greater than those for incidence (rate ratios of 1.52 and 1.07 respectively, sexes pooled). PMID: 23731103 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23731103?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - June 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Costilla R, Tobias M, Blakely T Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research